This article on Gamasutra really chaps my hide. Mark Rein of Epic Games says to the press that Gears of War is going to look better than many PS3 launch titles. Well, he should know – there were so many developers that jumped on board and decided to use Unreal Engine 3 after the announcement that Epic was aligning with Sony to bring Unreal Engine 3 to PS3.
Think about it. If a bunch of titles that use UE3 are trying to hit PS3 launch, why would Gears of War look better than them? Shouldn’t it look about the same? Well, unless… the PS3 hardware is less capable of course. Or… maybe UE3 isn’t DONE on PS3 or is not being focused on much by Epic because they’re working so hard on Gears of War. It is funny how Epic is in the unique position of being able to make the PS3 launch look better or worse due to the high number of PS3 titles that are focusing on using their engine. It makes one wonder…
Conspiracy theory anyone? 😉
Mark Rein on Unreal Engine 3
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3 responses to “Mark Rein on Unreal Engine 3”
I agree this is an issue with all the engine licensing companies: Are you a game company that licenses your engine? Or a technology provider that also happens to make games?
To give them the benefit of the doubt, they wrote the engine, they should be able to exploit it better than anyone else. (That being said, I agree there’s a prioritization of their own game likely happening).
As to this comment:
>Epic is in the unique position of being able to make the PS3 launch look better or worse due to the high number of PS3 titles that are focusing on using their engine
Well, Sony has no one to blame for this one but themselves. Secure a second source! Whether it be for engines or blue laser diodes! 🙂
If anything, Sony should know better than anyone else, since they played kingmaker once before, with Criterion during the PS2 launch.
dude, you are SUCH a Microsoft employee. hahahah 🙂
Actually, at the time I wrote teh post, I forgot that Gears of War was a 360 title! Oops!
Guess that’s what I get for spending too much time lining up 3 things of the same color in a row 🙂
Still, the point about single-source holds true. MS is guilty of doing teh same thing in the past. Nothing biased on one company versus teh other here.